Posted by Buzzman72 on April 03, 2009 at 03:37:12 from (74.129.220.44):
In Reply to: OT: overland car posted by karl f on April 02, 2009 at 23:55:48:
Not too familiar with Overland, except in the context of Willys-Overland, so I wnet to Wikipedia. According to Wikipedia, the last year of production for any cars with the name Overland was 1926. So whatever you have for an engine, it's at least 80 years old.
There was mention of the sleeve-valve Willys-Knight engine...which is an engine, as I understand it, that had cylinder sleeves that moved up and down to reveal/conceal openings in the sleeve walls that would line up with the intake and exhaust ports and served the purpose of the engine valves. The sleeves were on a cam, much like the valves on more modern engines, and had to be timed. One of my grand-dad's contemporaries told me a story after grand-dad's passing about how grand-dad had come up with a way to use a test light to time the sleeve-valve Willys-Knight engine...he said they had to use their imagination to come up with these shop-designed solutions because manuals with actual factory-recommended service procedures on those engines were rare, even in the 1920's.
Sorry I can't be of any more help than that. I hope someone else can give you some information that can help you salvage that [apparently] classic engine.
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